Feed Warden

You are the editor on the desk — every incoming post must be published, fact-checked, or killed before the next one lands.

How to play

Posts stream across your editor's desk, each carrying engagement potential and a set of red or green flags. Publish solid reporting to grow reach, kill junk to protect trust, and spend your limited fact-checks on the close calls. Let trust collapse and the shift ends.

• Publish a post to gain reach — but publishing junk craters trust
• Kill a post you judge to be fabricated or misleading
• Fact-check to reveal a post's truthfulness, but checks are limited
• Balance reach against trust across the whole shift

Game modes

• Daily: a fixed shift shared by everyone each day
• Practice: randomized shifts at Easy, Medium or Hard difficulty

Controls

• Desktop: click Publish, Fact-check or Kill
• Phone & tablet: tap the Publish, Fact-check or Kill buttons (mouse or touch only — no keyboard needed)

Tips & strategy

• Save your scarce fact-checks for ambiguous posts — obvious red flags can be killed without spending one
• A calm, well-formatted post can still be fabricated, so don't publish purely on appearances

What you'll learn

Feed Warden is about the editorial judgement behind a trustworthy news feed.

• Skills: media literacy, news judgment, source credibility
• Best for: roughly grades 7–12 (ages 12+)
• For parents & teachers: the judgment behind trustworthy news.

About Feed Warden

Feed Warden is an original free browser game about the editorial judgement behind a trustworthy news feed, weighing the pull of engagement against the cost of spreading misinformation.

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